James Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, âbecause I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work.â Author of recent books The Long Emergency and World Made By Hand, Mr. Kunstler is a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, is a blogger and commentator on environmental and economic issues.